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Esperanza Aguirre, SpainFormer minister of education and culture; former president of the Senate; former president of the Community of Madrid; president of the Popular Party of Madrid

David Allman, United StatesOwner and chairman of Regent Partners, a real estate company with more than $2.5 billion in assets; chairman of numerous philanthropic initiatives, including Opportunity International Nicaragua, which fights poverty through business training and economic development projects

David Alvarez, Puerto RicoExecutive director of the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority; former senior adviser to the chairman and president of the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico

Soledad Arellano, ChileUndersecretary for the Ministry of Social Planning; former economic minister responsible for advising Chilean antitrust authority

Pablo Arosemena, Ecuador
Entrepreneur and president of restaurant chain Subway Ecuador; president of the chamber of commerce in Guayaquil; president of Inteligencia Estratégica, a firm specializing in the economic impact of public policies; former president of Fundación Ecuador Libre, a market-liberal think tank

Diego Arria, VenezuelaFormer president of the United Nations Security Council; former permanent representative of Venezuela to the UN; member of Advisory Council of International Crisis Group; former governor of Caracas; filed charges against Hugo Chávez at the ICC for crimes against humanity

June Arunga, KenyaCEO of Usafi Comfort, a wastewater management solutions provider; partner at Black Star Line, a technology provider for mobile payments; advocate for property rights in Africa; one of Forbes’ 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa 2011 and Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business 2010

Azhar Aslam, Pakistan and United Kingdom
Founder and chairman of Istanbul Network for Liberty, which promotes market-liberal policies in the Muslim world; founder and executive director of Vision 21, which promotes literacy and liberty-related values and policies in Pakistan; plastic surgeon with practice in London

Lawson Bader, United States
President and CEO of DonorsTrust, a community foundation that works with libertarian and conservative philanthropists; former president of Competitive Enterprise Institute; former executive vice president of Mercatus Center; board member at Atlas Network, State Policy Network, Solers, Inc.

Ena von Baer, Chile
Member of the Chilean Senate; former minister of communications to president Sebastian Piñera; former head of political and social program at Liberty & Development Institute; political scientist and former journalist

Steve Baker, United Kingdom
Conservative Party MP for Wycombe; former aerospace engineer with Royal Air Force; former software engineer; co-founder of Cobden Center, a market-liberal think tank focusing on monetary policy.• Video interview

Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland
Former head of the central bank; architect of post-Soviet economic reforms.• Video interview

Ricardo Baptista Leite, Portugal and CanadaCo-founder of Estoril Conferences, which focus on globalization issues; medical doctor; member of Portuguese parliament, serving on health and foreign affairs committees; head of public health at the Institute of Health Sciences at Catholic University of Portugal; Cascais city councilor

Scott Barbee, United StatesOwner and president of Aegis Financial Corporation, an award-winning wealth management firm; director of the Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation, which organizes political debates and supports organizations such as Cato Institute, Atlas Network, and Manhattan Institute

Mouatassim Belghazi, Morocco
Founder and CEO of FONDEP Microcredit (Albaraka), a leader in financial services for small businesses; chairman of Saraya Holdings, which has interests in agribusiness, distribution, real estate, and tourism; former CEO of SOMED Group and ONA-SNI Group, Morocco’s first private financial and industrial holding

Tom W. Bell, United States
Professor at Chapman University School of Law; legal adviser to Elevator Cities Development Corporation, which promotes and designs startup cities; author of Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good

Kakha Bendukidze, GeorgiaFormer minister of economy; former state minister on reforms; architect of economic liberalization during the Rose Revolution

Jaime Besa, Chile
Investment manager at Drake Capital; former adviser to the Ministry of Social Planning; co-founder of MBAChile.com, a worldwide collaboration of MBA graduates and students

Ryan Betters, United States and Haiti
Executive director of Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank that uses cost-benefit analysis to develop smart solutions for the world’s biggest problems; decorated US Marine Corps combat veteran; former food industry entrepreneur; former USAID business development consultant

Jesse Blumenthal, United States
Head of technology and innovation policy at Charles Koch Institute and Charles Koch Foundation, which work to foster a national conversation on critical issues that have an impact on the advancement of societal well-being; former director of client strategy at the digital media firm Engage

Zac Bookman, United States
Co-founder and CEO of OpenGov Inc.; principal at Formation 8 Partners; former special advisor to General HR McMaster, commander of Anticorruption Task Force in Kabul Afghanistan.• Video interview• Radio interview

Karol Boudreaux, United States and Ethiopia
Land tenure and resource rights specialist at the Cloudburst Group; former Africa land tenure specialist at USAID; former member of the property rights working group for UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor

Sam Bowman, United Kingdom and IrelandEconomist and executive director of Adam Smith Institute, one of Britain’s leading market-liberal think tanks; frequent commentator and writer for the Wall Street Journal, BBC, and the Guardian

Connor Boyack, United StatesPresident of Libertas Institute, a public policy think tank; author of the Tuttle Twins book series, which teaches children the principles of liberty; author of books, columns, and articles on politics and religion; frequently featured in national and international media

Karen Boyd, United StatesStrategic and financial consultant to early-stage and established companies; board member of several community associations; former president of a nonprofit specializing in educational innovation in developing countries

Robert Boyd, United KingdomManaging trustee at Institute of Economic Affairs; trustee at Network for a Free Society; member of Atlas Network’s advisory council; founding member of Atlas Network’s board of directors; former CEO of a multinational investment firm

Angela Braly, United States
Former CEO of Wellpoint, Inc. (now Anthem); president of Braly Group; co-founder of Policy Circle, an organization of professional women who meet to discuss economics and policy; member of the board of directors of Brookfield Asset Management, ExxonMobil, Lowe’s, Procter & Gamble

Jerry Brito, United States
Executive director of Coin Center, a new nonprofit research and advocacy center focused on public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin; adjunct professor of law and former director of the Technology Policy Program at Mercatus Center at George Mason University.• Video interview

Montgomery Brown, United States
Program director at Earhart Foundation

Alfredo Bullard, Peru
Practicing lawyer with specialty in arbitration, mediation and antitrust issues; law professor; former head of national antitrust authority (Indecopi)

Zach Caceres, United States and Guatemala
Former executive director of the Michael Polanyi College, a school of creative development, as well as the Startup Cities Institute, a research center studying startup communities that innovate in law and policy; former editor of Radical Social Entrepreneurs, an online magazine that promotes innovation in education and governance

Denis Calabrese, United States
Political, policy, and business strategist with expertise in crisis communications, litigation support, media relations; co-founder and chief strategist at Texans for Lawsuit Reform, the most successful state-based civil justice reform group in the country; former president of Laura and John Arnold Foundation

Francisco Capella, SpainFounding member of Instituto Juan de Mariana, one of Spain’s leading market-liberal think tanks; founding member and professor at OMMA, which offers advanced degrees in economics and finance online; former consultant to US and European industry and governments

Alex Chafuen, United States and Argentina
President of Atlas Network, one of the world’s largest market-liberal organizations; president of Hispanic American Center for Economic Research; trustee of Grove City College; serves on the boards of Acton Institute and Chase Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia; author of Faith and Liberty; Forbes columnist

Arthur Chait, United States
Founder of EoPlex semiconductor; former head of Stanford Research Institute’s consulting division; principal at Booz Allen and SVP at Solectron/Flextronics; adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Notre Dame and Menlo College; mentor at Stanford’s accelerator and Draper University; president of Antigua Forum 2016

John Chisholm, United States
Technology entrepreneur and investor; founding CEO of John Chisholm Ventures; founder and former CEO of Decisive Technology (acquired by Google) and CustomerSat (acquired by Confirmit); past president and chair of MIT Worldwide Alumni Association; trustee of MIT and the Santa Fe Institute• Video interview• Radio interview

Karma Choden, Bhutan
Program coordinator at QED Consulting Group, a firm that advises major international organizations and governments; former program officer at the Bhutanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry; former program officer for the king of Bhutan

Julio Clavijo, Ecuador
Adviser to the head of the CREO political party, the second largest in the country’s legislature; international executive board member and former Latin American chairman of Students for Liberty

Diogo Costa, Brazil and United KingdomExecutive director of Institute for Innovation and Governance, a market-liberal foundation in Brazil; advisory board member at Students for Liberty; researcher affiliated with Cato Institute and Atlas Network; taught political economy at King’s College London

Mickey Costa, United States
Co-founder and CEO of FundElevator.com, a crowd-sourcing platform to support causes and politicians

Alex Cranberg, United States
Founder of Alliance for Choice in Education; member of University of Texas System Board of Regents; founder and chairman of Aspect Energy

Brian Lee Crowley, Canada
Managing director of Macdonald-Laurier Institute; founding president of Atlantic Institute for Market Studies; member of Alberta Premier’s Advisory Council on Health; expert on Canadian health care reform

Juan José Daboub, El Salvador
Former managing director of the World Bank; former finance minister and architect of privatizations and dollarization in El Salvador; founding CEO of the Global Adaptation Institute; chairman and CEO of the Daboub Partnership

Matt Dalio, United States and Guatemala
Founder of China Care Foundation, which provides medical, social, and educational programs for orphans with disabilities in China; founder and CEO of Endless Mobile, a computer platform aimed at the developing world and built with technology at a fraction of the cost of traditional PCs.• Video interview

J. P. De Gance, United States
Executive vice president of Philanthropy Roundtable, where he runs Philanthropy Labs and is co-founder of the Culture of Freedom Initiative; former vice president of external affairs at Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Prosperity Foundation

Tuur Demeester, Belgium
Financial analyst and frequent media commentator on digital currencies; early investor and advocate of Bitcoin; owner of AdamantResearch, a financial research firm; former editor of MacroTrends, a financial newsletter.• Video interview

John Deming, United States and New ZealandAngel investor and entrepreneur specializing in medical access technology, health-care technology, and innovative models for linking entrepreneurs and investors; seed investor in firms and technologies that challenge harmful government regulations and inefficient business structures

Richard Durana, Slovakia
Co-founder and director of Institute of Economic and Social Studies (INESS), Slovakia’s leading market-liberal think tank; former research scientist at Institute of Chemistry at Slovak Academy of Sciences

Joao Carlos Espada, Portugal
Professor of political studies and director of the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal; former adviser to two presidents of Portugal; awarded the Order of Merit by the Portuguese government and the highest civil recognition given by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Gang FAN, China
Secretary general of China Reform Foundation; former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of China’s central bank; economic professor and director of the National Economic Research Institute; a Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinker.• Video interview

Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, Spain
UFM vice president; former minister of health for Community of Madrid; former deputy chief of staff for president José María Aznar; former chief of staff in Spanish Ministry of Education; former secretary general of FAES (Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis), the country’s leading market-liberal think tank.• Video interview

Lucía Figar, Spain
Education reformer; head of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports for Madrid; former head of Madrid’s immigration agency; former secretary at Ministry of Social Affairs; member of national board for Partido Popular

Mark Frazier, United States
President of Openworld, a US-based nonprofit specializing in land value appreciation as a means of privately funding public goods; developer of market-oriented initiatives for private and public sector clients in fifty-six countries

Declan Ganley, Ireland and United States
Chairman and CEO of Rivada Networks, a telecommunications firm that specializes in arbitrage and use of radio spectrum; founder and chairman of the pan-European political party Libertas• Video interview

Titus Gebel, Monaco and GermanyCo-founder and former CEO of Deutsche Rohstoff, a German investment company with interests in mining and oil production; former asset manager; founder of Free Private Cities Limited, a for-profit venture designed to offer the basic services of government in voluntary arrangements

Rick Geddes, United States and Costa Rica
Expert on public-private partnerships and other innovations to improve financing of transportation, water, and infrastructure projects; professor and director of the Program in Infrastructure Policy at Cornell University; former senior economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers

Mohamed Gharred, Tunisia and Canada
Adviser on bilateral relations between Tunisia and Canada; member of international office of Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies; activist and former strategic adviser for elections in Saint Laurent with Liberal Party of Canada

Michael Gibson, United States
Co-founder and general partner at 1517 Fund, which invests in young innovators and entrepreneurs; venture capitalist; principal at Thiel Capital; vice president for grants at Thiel Foundation, where he helps run the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship

Stephanie Giovanetti, United States
Director of outreach at Atlas Network, one of the world’s largest market-liberal organizations; oversees Atlas Network’s flagship events, including Freedom Dinner, Liberty Forum, and Think Tank MBA

Casey Given, United States
Executive director of Young Voices, a nonprofit that trains early-career market-liberal journalists and analysts and connects them with media outlets around the world; former director of communications at Students for Liberty; political columnist at news website Rare

Bill Glasgall, United States
Director of state and local program at Volcker Alliance, which helps bring transparency and best practices into state-level budgeting; award-winning journalist; former Bloomberg News managing editor; former senior editor and writer at Businessweek

José Raúl González, Guatemala
Chief executive officer of Grupo Progreso, a regional leader in the building materials sector; professor of finance and economics and former dean of UFM School of Economic Sciences; member of the UFM Board of Trustees; former president of CIEN, a think tank in Guatemala

Pilar García de la Granja, Spain
Award-winning journalist; US bureau chief correspondent for Telecinco TV of Spain; US correspondent for Diario el Economista; first Spanish-speaking journalist to transmit live from the NYSE; winner of 2007 Golden Antenna award for economics broadcasting in Spain.• Video interview

Marcel Granier, Venezuela
President and CEO of Empresas 1BC, a major media company in Venezuela; president of the board and general director of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), one of the country’s most-watched television channels; activist and critic of the Venezuelan government

Daniel Green, United States
Program director of Templeton Religion Trust; former director of Individual Freedom and Free Markets program at John Templeton Foundation; former fellow and resident scholar at Liberty Fund; lawyer, CPA, economist, theologian, and musician

Ingrid Gregg, United States
President and trustee of Earhart Foundation; member of board of directors of Citizens Research Council of Michigan; member of advisory board of Mackinac Center for Public Policy; fellow of Royal Historical Society; trustee of Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, Philadelphia Society, and Foundation for Economic Education

Dan Grossman, United States
Chairman of Atlas Network; founder and owner of several companies; board member of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), Students for Liberty, and Future of Freedom Foundation

Gerardo Guerra, Salvador
Vice president of Movimiento 300, a civic movement dedicated to defending ideas of freedom; director of Curul85, a media platform designed to secure transparency in the legislature by informing the public about its delegates; founder, owner, and director of Organika, a landscape design firm

John Guido, United States
Director of strategic initiatives and external relationships at the Foundation for Harmony and Prosperity; consultant to startup ventures in agriculture and food industries; Bastiat Society board member

Andrew Haldenby, United Kingdom
Co-founder and director of Reform and trustee of Reform Scotland, both market-liberal think tanks; former head of political section of the Conservative Party's research department

Robin Hanson, United States
Expert in prediction markets and idea futures; associate professor of economics at George Mason University; research associate with the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University; collaborator with DARPA’s Future Map project

Nouh El Harmouzi, Morocco and Egypt
Director of the Arab Center for Scientific Research and Humane Studies; editor of news website MinbarAlHurriyya.org; professor of economics at Ibn Toufail University in Morocco; recognized for his speech calling for economic freedom in Egypt’s Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring• Video interview

￼Tim Harris, South Africa
Member of parliament; shadow minister of finance; party whip and international liaison for the Democratic Alliance, the official opposition party

Thomas Hazlett, United States
Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Professor of Economics at Clemson University; former chief economist at US Federal Communications Commission; author of The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone• Video interview

Jason Heckathorn, United States
Founding president of Forever Oceans Corporation, which develops sustainable fish farms that operate in oceans; founder of Lockheed Martin’s mobile fish pens, which reuse the company’s defense technologies for sustainable fish farming, named one of Time magazine’s best inventions of 2012

David Henneberger, Costa Rica and Mexico
Project director for Central America at Friedrich Naumann Foundation, a German-based organization that supports freedom, rule of law, and democracy initiatives in sixty countries; member of German Council on Foreign Relations; affiliated with Germany’s Free Democratic Party

Roberta Herzberg, United States
Assistant director of Freedom and Free Enterprise program at John Templeton Foundation; professor emeritus of political economy at Utah State University; president of the Public Choice Society

Rainer Heufers, Indonesia
Co-founder and executive director of the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies, a market-liberal think tank that works with policymakers to advance prosperity in Indonesia; founder and managing director of SIAP Solutions, a consulting firm that provides policy advice and training to think tanks, political parties, corporations, and governments

Jamie Heywood, United States
Founder of PatientsLikeMe.com, a social media tool that shares disease-related information to improve patient outcomes, one of “15 companies that will change the world” (CNN Money).• Video interview

Chris Horner, United States
Senior staff attorney and clinical instructor at Free Market Environmental Law Clinic; senior fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute; attorney in Washington, DC specializing in energy, environment, and transparency issues at the domestic and international levels

Andrei Illarionov, Russia and Ukraine
Economist and former senior economic adviser to Vladimir Putin; senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity; played a key role in implementing Russia’s flat income tax, repaying the foreign debt, and making the country a full-fledged member of the G8

Wilmot G. James, South Africa
Member of parliament; federal chairperson of the national opposition party, the Democratic Alliance

Bill Jones, United States
Co-founder and president of Texans First, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs invest in policy reform; co-founder of Local Voice Solutions, a consulting firm that uses technology to develop campaigns for candidates and causes; former investor and entrepreneur in the energy industry; professor at Acton School of Business

James Jones, United States
Co-founder of Local Voice Solutions, a consulting firm that assists political candidates who support accountable, representative, and transparent government; co-founder of Accountability First, a political action committee; entrepreneur and investor in oil and gas industry

Vidar Jorgensen, United States and Mexico
Founding vice chairman of Grameen America, a microfinance entity; founding director of Grameen Health, a health-care program for low-income immigrant women and families; majority owner of conference and research companies Cambridge Healthtech Institute and World Health Care Congress

Jason Kenney, Canada
Leader of Alberta Conservative Party; member of Alberta legislature; former member of parliament and former shadow finance minister, minister of national defense, minister of employment and social development, minister of multiculturalism; former vice chair of cabinet planning and priorities committee

Matt Kibbe, United States
President and chief community organizer of Free the People; president of AlternativePAC; former adviser to US presidential candidate Rand Paul; former president and CEO of FreedomWorks; former Republican National Committee senior economist; expert in grassroots political communications

Terry Kibbe, United States
CEO of Free the People, a nonprofit that promotes libertarian ideals through stories about freedom, community, and disruptive innovation; president of Curated Innovation, which helps universities and other organizations bring inventions and research to market; former adviser to Global Philanthropic Trust

Mark Klugmann, El Salvador and Honduras
Co-chairman of ZEDE (free economic zones) reform team for Honduran government; former speechwriter to US presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush; strategist for six administrations in El Salvador and Honduras; originator of LEAP zones, a method to overcome obstacles to reform

Alexandra Klun, United States
Business strategy and marketing consultant to startups, nonprofits, and political campaigns; manager of Tim Draper’s Innovate Your State initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to educating and encouraging public participation to fundamentally improve government

Renee Knake, United States
Professor of law and Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at University of Houston; former co-director of ReInvent Law Laboratory at Michigan State University; former reporter to American Bar Association’s Presidential Commission on the Future of Legal Services

Mamadou Koulibaly, Côte d'Ivoire
Former president of the National Assembly; former minister of the budget; former minister of economy and finance

Kevin Koym, United States
Serial tech entrepreneur; creator of the world’s first Internet banking application; co-founder of Tech Ranch, which provides Austin-based tech entrepreneurs with a support community; co-founder of Prueba el Mundo, a Latin American entrepreneurship development program

Birgit Lamm, Mexico and GermanyRegional director for Latin America at Friedrich Naumann Foundation, which promotes rule of law, good governance, and individual freedom; former director of the International Academy for Leadership and program coordinator at Theodor Heuss Academy

Alan Lattanner, United States
Geoengineer, investor, and serial entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in the software, environmental, and energy industries; advisory board member at Monterey Venture Partners, which invests in sustainable technologies

Elena Leontjeva, Lithuania
Co-founder and former president of Lithuanian Free Market Institute; former economic adviser to the president; former economic adviser to six administrations on banking, securities, tax, and budget issues

Dan Liljenquist, United States
Former Utah state senator; architect of major public pension reform and Medicaid reform in Utah; nationally recognized expert on reforms related to pensions and benefits

Brad Lips, United States
CEO of Atlas Network, one of the world’s largest market-liberal organizations; member of Mont Pelerin Society and John Templeton Foundation; former Internet entrepreneur, Wall Street analyst, and music journalist; co-author of The Reagan Vision and contributor to Freedom Champions

Sven Otto Littorin, Sweden
Former minister of employment, responsible for overhaul of unemployment insurance and civil service system during the first Reinfeldt administration; adviser at Gibran Associates, focusing on policy reform issues

Edward J. López, United States
Professor of economics and BB&T Distinguished Professor of Capitalism at Western Carolina University; executive director of Public Choice Society; member of the board of directors of the Association for Private Enterprise Education

Ricardo López Murphy, Argentina
Former minister of defense; former minister of economy; presidential candidate in 2003 and 2007

Marcelo Loprete, Argentina and UruguayLawyer and business consultant; general trustee of Argentina’s National Social Security Agency; former chief financial officer at the Ministry of Education in the Buenos Aires city government; chair of political economy program at Universidad Austral

Luis Loria, Costa Rica
Director of the Opportunity for All program at IDEAS, a market-liberal think tank; president of Strategic Advantage Consulting Group, which provides services to public- and private-sector leaders, including top-level government officials, in ten Latin American countries

Rolf Lüders, Chile
Former minister of finance; former minister of economy

Bart Madden, United States
Entrepreneur and author of Free To Choose Medicine, a bold reform proposal for the Food and Drug Administration to allow faster access to cheaper drugs; co-founder of Callard, Madden & Associates.• Video interview

Ron Manners, Australia
Founder and chairman of Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, a market-liberal think tank that introduces students to market-based solutions to current problems; executive director of Mannwest Group, which has interests in mining; director of other mining businesses

Rod Martin, United States
Technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and futurist; member of the PayPal startup team; past president of National Federation of Republican Assemblies

Lindiwe Mazibuko, South Africa
Former member of parliament, fourth youngest in the country’s history; former parliamentary leader for the Democratic Alliance, the country’s official opposition party; currently studying public policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.• Video interview

Alexander McCobin, United States
Co-founder and president of Students For Liberty, the largest libertarian student organization in the world, with fifty thousand members; member of the board of advisers of the Atlas Society and Our America Initiative; former Koch Associate at Cato Institute

Eric McKay, United States
Co-founder at OpenCapital, making early stage investing in ventures available to passive investors; Peter Thiel Fellow 2011

Michael McKay, United States
Founder and former president of Iowa Capital Management; retired general partner of several commodity funds; host of market-oriented educational project Radio Free Market

Fred McMahon, Canada
Resident fellow and Dr. Michael A. Walker Research Chair in Economic Freedom at the Fraser Institute; general manager of the Economic Freedom of the World project

Gustavo Medina, Spain and United StatesFounder and CEO of half a dozen tech companies in e-commerce, biotechnology, and gaming, including Wupplier (value chain management) and TheSingularFactory (online business development); consultant to the Spanish Algae Bank, a research and development center focusing on microalgae

Gonzalo Melián, SpainDirector of OMMA, an online graduate school based in Madrid powered by UFM; associate professor of economics at IE University; UFM visiting professor; partner at Instituto Juan de Mariana; architect specialized in urban planning according to market-liberal principles

Adam Meyerson, United States
President of Philanthropy Roundtable, a network of donors committed to advancing liberty; member of the board of State Policy Network; former vice president of educational affairs at the Heritage Foundation; former Wall Street Journal editorial writer

Rodolfo Milani, United States
Senior managing director at Wunderlich, a full-service wealth management firm; president of Friends of UFM; trustee of Hispanic American Center for Economic Research; member of Inter-American Institute for Democracy

Sugata Mitra, India and United Kingdom
Chief scientist emeritus at NIIT, an operator of higher education institutions in India; creator of the Hole-in-the-Wall experiment that showed the value of informal learning and inspired the movie Slumdog Millionaire; professor of educational technology at Newcastle University• Video interview• Radio interview

Carlos Alberto Montaner, Cuba and Spain
Commentator and author of more than twenty-five books and thousands of articles, mostly on the Cuban dictatorship; named one of the fifty most influential Ibero-American intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine; political analyst for CNN en Español• Radio interview

Leonidas Montes, Chile
Dean of School of Government at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; former chairman of the board at Televisión Nacional de Chile

Andrew Morriss, United States
Dean of newly established School of Innovation at Texas A&M University; vice president for entrepreneurship and economic development at Texas A&M; former dean of Texas A&M School of Law

Michael Murray, United States
Senior vice president at John Templeton Foundation; senior visiting scholar in philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College; former Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor of Philosophy; author or co-author of numerous books and articles on philosophy and theology

Asra Nadeem, United States and Pakistan
Managing partner at Draper University Ventures; director of entrepreneurial programs at Draper University; expert in product strategy for emerging markets; interested in building technologies that skyrocket human potential

￼Mihail Neamtu, Romania
Politician and theologian; founder and president of New Republic, a new political party; former scientific director of Institute for Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile; member of the Alliance for the European Conservatives and Reformists

Arpita Nepal, Nepal
Co-founder and director of research at Samriddhi, a foundation that advances ideas for a free and prosperous Nepal through entrepreneurial projects and by working with the national government; honored by John Templeton Foundation for promoting economic liberty and fighting corruption• Video interview

Massimiliano Neri, Italy
Director of enterprise risk solutions for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Moody’s Analytics; subject matter expert for financial risk management at Professional Risk Managers’ International Association; instructor in risk analysis at Center for Advanced Studies OMMA in Madrid

Bill Nixon, United States
Chairman and CEO of Policy Impact Communications, a government affairs and public relations firm; chairman and CEO of iSchool Campus and ISC Federal, which provide schools, governments, and organizations with a platform for integrating multiple technologies for education and training

John E. Nixon, United States
Chief financial officer at University of Utah; former budget director for the state of Michigan and head of the Department of Technology, Management and Budget; responsible for leading major pension reforms in Michigan; former president of the National Association of State Budget Officers.• Video interview

Hervé Novelli, France
Mayor of Richelieu and former member of national assembly; former undersecretary for business and foreign trade; former undersecretary for trade, crafts, small and medium enterprises; founder Les Reformateurs, a market- liberal faction within the Union for a Popular Movement

Barbara Oakley, United StatesNew York Times bestselling author of A Mind for Numbers; creator of Learning How to Learn, one of the most popular online courses in the world with more than half a million students; professor of engineering at Oakland University; visiting scholar at University of California, San Diego

Mary Anastasia O’Grady, United States
Editor of the Wall Street Journal’s The Americas column; member of the editorial board at the Wall Street Journal

Japheth Omojuwa, Nigeria and Kenya
Political commentator and editor of Atlas Network’s AfricanLiberty.org, one of Africa’s largest websites on economics and governance; World Economic Forum Global Shaper; featured on CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera; named one of Africa’s 50 Movers and Shakers by Credit Suisse

Emilio Pacheco, United States and Venezuela
Executive vice president and COO at Liberty Fund; formerly the chief information officer at the central bank of Venezuela

Tom Palmer, United States
Vice president for international programs at Atlas Economic Research Foundation; general director of Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity; senior fellow at Cato Institute; author of Realizing Freedom and editor of Why Liberty, The Morality of Capitalism, and After the Welfare State

Elena Panaritis, Greece and United States
Former senior economic adviser to the Greek prime minister and minister of finance; former member of parliament; social entrepreneur and founder of Panel Group, a policy advisory firm; founder of Thought for Action Foundation; former World Bank economist specializing in property rights reform• Radio interview

Sam Patterson, United StatesCo-founder of OB1 and OpenBazaar, a peer-to-peer marketplace that uses blockchain technology; former senior policy analyst and creator of the tech policy program at Charles Koch Institute; author of Bitcoin Beginner, one of the most popular Bitcoin books on Amazon

Dan Peters, United States
President of Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation, focused on improving K-12 education; co- founder of Alliance for Charitable Reform, advocating reform in non-profit sector; former chairman of Philanthropy Roundtable

Kellie Peters, United States
Trustee of Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation, focused on improving K-12 education; co- founder of Liberty Alliance Cincinnati, an activist group dedicated to limited government

Surse Pierpoint, Panama and United States
General manager of Colón Import & Export, S. A.; former manager of Colon Free Trade Zone; appointed by the president of Panama to establish rules for this free economic zone; former head of Colón Free Trade Zone Users Association; president of the market-liberal think tank Fundación Libertad Panamá

Charlie Plott, United States
Pioneer in the use of experiments to test economic and political theories; professor of economics and political science and director of the Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Political Science at California Institute of Technology

Robert Poole, United StatesCo-founder of Reason Foundation; author of Cutting Back City Hall, which heavily influenced Margaret Thatcher’s privatization efforts; former adviser to Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations; named the leading national expert on transportation privatization by the New York Times

Oliver Porter, United States
Creator of a public-private partnership model successfully implemented by local governments in the United States that dramatically lowers costs and improves services; chairman of the charter commission and interim city manager for Sandy Springs, Georgia; former vice president at AT&T• Radio interview

Marcela Prieto, Colombia
Executive director of Political Science Institute of Colombia; former adviser to Ministry of Interior

Amy Proulx, United States
Program officer for Individual Freedom and Free Markets at John Templeton Foundation; former director of educational and career development programs for young scholars at Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University

Joe Quirk, United States
Communications director and “seavangelist” at the Seasteading Institute, an organization that researches and promotes floating cities; bestselling science writer, novelist, and memoir ghostwriter; co-author of upcoming book Why Seastead? How Floating Nations Will Liberate Humanity• Radio interview

Daniel Raisbeck, Colombia
Candidate for mayor of Bogotá and Colombia’s first libertarian political candidate; classical scholar at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá; columnist for the PanAm Post, and el Tiempo; prominent speaker and advocate for limited government• Radio interview

Ben Rast, United States
Founder and senior partner of the Rast Group at Morgan Stanley, a provider of wealth management services; co-founder and president of the Bastiat Society, an international nonprofit dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and the business community promote a society of free and responsible individuals

Ruth Richardson, New Zealand
Former minister of finance; architect of far-reaching fiscal and macroeconomic reforms during the 1990s; current and former director of several dozen companies.• Video interview• Radio interview

Brian Robertson, United States
Co-founder and partner at HolacracyOne, which helps organizations radically improve performance through better rules, distributed authority, and empowerment; experienced entrepreneur and founder and former CEO of Ternary Software

Andrew Robb, Australia
Member of Parliament; Shadow Minister for Finance; chairman of the Coalition Policy Development Committee; former federal director of Liberal Party.• Video interview

Fred Roeder, Germany and United States
Vice president of finance and operations at Students for Liberty, a global forum for student advocates of economic, social, and academic freedom; co-founder of European Students for Liberty; founder of Healthcare Solutions, which provides consulting on health systems and services in Central and Eastern Europe

Cristian Rodríguez, Guatemala
CEO and president of EDISA, a distributor of automotive parts and power tools; president of Soluciones Analíticas, a lab services firm serving the agricultural and industrial sectors; trustee or director of various foundations focused on education and reform in Guatemala

Juan Rodríguez, Guatemala and Colombia
Co-founder and CEO of Kingo Energy, a solar energy company that serves off-grid communities in Guatemala, Colombia, and South Africa; one of MIT Technology Review’s 2014 Central American Innovators under 35

Mauricio Rojas, Sweden and Chile
Former member of the Swedish parliament for the Liberal People’s Party; senior fellow at Fundación para el Progreso, a market-liberal think tank in Chile; author of several books on immigration, economics, and the Swedish model; former president of the market-liberal think tank Timbro

Flemming Rose, DenmarkDanish journalist, author, and foreign affairs editor at Jyllands-Posten; responsible for the 2005 publication of controversial Muhammad cartoons, which made him a target of Al-Qaeda; senior fellow at Cato Institute; awarded 2016 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty

Roberto Salinas, Mexico
President of the Economist’s Mexico Business Forum; director of Alamos Alliance conferences; President of the Antigua Forum 2012

Ali Salman, Pakistan
Founder and executive director of the Policy Research Institute of Market Economy, Pakistan’s only market-liberal think tank; visiting fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London; author of several books, including Discord between Economic Freedom and Social Justice in Islam

Octavio Sánchez, Honduras
Chief of staff to President Porfirio Lobo; named by president to lead free cities project in Honduras

￼Charlie Sandefer, United States
Co-founder of Acton Children’s Business Fair, the largest entrepreneurship event for kids in North America, which he started in 2008 with his five-year-old brother Sam; at age sixteen he has completed the first portion of high school studies and four hands-on apprenticeships

￼Laura Sandefer, United States
Educational entrepreneur and co-founder of Acton Academy, a learner-driven network of private schools that focus on Socratic teaching; author of Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

￼Sunny Sangha, United Kingdom and India
Co-Founder of 225 Academy, which aims to reinvent education globally and currently creates personal learning experiences for young people in Asia and the Middle East; founder of the World Forum for Institutional Experimentation, which promotes experimental jurisdictions and communities

James Schuler, United States
Co-founder and CTO of FundElevator.com, a crowd-sourcing platform to support causes and politicians; creator of Eligible, a platform to help healthcare companies engage in financial transactions; Y-Combinator graduate; Peter Thiel “20 Under 20” Fellow 2013

Frederic Schwartz, United States, India and Ethiopia
Physician educator; founder of medical schools; innovator in combined local/distance education and use of simulation technology to enhance learning and safety; CEO of Global Medical University, a project to create a freer, cost-effective alternative to the medical education monopoly

Fredrik Segerfeldt, Sweden
Incoming director of the pro-immigration think tank Migro; former program director at Timbro, Sweden’s leading market-liberal think tank; author of upcoming book on colonization; author of Water For Sale; commentator featured in the Wall Street Journal, BBC, and other media outlets

Jaime Serra, Mexico
Former minister of commerce and industry; architect of NAFTA

David Seymour, New Zealand and Canada
Member of Parliament representing the Epsom electorate, including parts of Auckland and suburbs; leader of the pro-market ACT party; former government adviser on partnership/charter schools; former policy analyst with think tanks in Canada and New Zealand• Video interview

Parth Shah, India
Founder and president of Centre for Civil Society, a market liberal think tank in Delhi• Video interview

Tracie Sharp, United States
President of State Policy Network; trustee of the Roe Foundation; founder of HOPE-Oregon; former executive director of Cascade Policy Institute

Mao Shoulong, China
Professor and dean of School of Public Management at Renmin University in Beijing; expert on public administration in China

Remigijus Šimašius, Lithuania
Mayor of Vilnius; former minister of justice; former head of Lithuanian Free Market Institute• Video interview

Robin Sitoula, Nepal
Executive director at Samriddhi, a foundation that advances ideas for a free and prosperous Nepal through entrepreneurial projects and by working with government to create a business-friendly environment; honored by John Templeton Foundation for promoting economic liberty and fighting corruption

Ben Slivka, United States
Software and biotech investor, philanthropist, software engineer; started and led Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team through release of version 3.0; created Wissner-Slivka Foundation with wife, Lisa; worked at IBM and Amazon; founded and sold DreamBox Learning; Northwestern University trustee since 1998

Vernon Smith, United States
Pioneer of experimental economics; 2002 Nobel laureate in economics; professor of economics at Chapman University

Benito Solis, Mexico
Recently retired member of the board of Bank Deposit Protection Institute (IPAB), with responsibility for insuring deposits and addressing bank solvency issues; former director general of Moody’s in Mexico

Danielle Strachman, United States
Co-founder and general partner at 1517 Fund, which invests in young innovators and entrepreneurs; former program director for the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship; co-founder and board member of Innovations Academy, an inquiry-based public charter school

Michael Strong, United States
Chairman of Elevator Cities Development Corporation, dedicated to promoting and designing Startup Cities; chief visionary officer of Freedom Lights Our World (FLOW); board member of the Seasteading Institute; lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems• Radio interview

Tomas Szalay, Slovakia
Medical doctor and adviser on health reforms to governments in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Western Balkans; partner at the Health Policy Institute, a market-oriented think tank that promotes health policy reforms

Sam Tabuchi, Japan and United StatesProfessor in the Public Private Partnership Graduate School and Global Innovation Studies Program at Toyo University; vice chairman of a PPP initiative at the United Nations; deputy director of the Asia PPP Institute; led the implementation of a billion-dollar PPP project in Florida

Heather Templeton Dill, United States
President of John Templeton Foundation; former trustee and member of the foundation’s executive, finance, and strategic planning committees; board member at First Trust Bank; former member of the Templeton Religion Trust steering committee and Templeton World Charity board

Matías de Tezanos, Guatemala and United States
Internet entrepreneur and investor; named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum; founder of Hoteles.com, the most visited hotel reservation site in Spanish (acquired by Expedia); founding CEO and chairman of PeopleFund, which invests in tech startups

Gene Thompson, Cayman IslandsEntrepreneur in real estate development; director of Thompson Development Ltd, a leading development company in the Cayman Islands; director of Health City Cayman Islands, a tertiary care hospital

Jennifer Thompson, United States
Executive director of Center for the Study of Liberty, which engages the business community with market-liberal ideas; former senior director of programs at Institute for Humane Studies; former vice president of co-sponsored programs at Liberty Fund

Alfredo Timermans, Spain
CEO of Telefónica Internacional USA; former secretary of state for communications and former deputy chief of staff under President José María Aznar; former director of the Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis (FAES).• Video interview

Nathan Tjirimuje, Namibia and South AfricaFounder of Chevauchee Foundation, which works to spread liberty in Africa and has partnered with sixty high schools and universities; winner of Atlas Network’s Africa Liberty Award; former water entrepreneur who encountered government corruption and regulation firsthand

William J. Tompson, United Kingdom
Head of OECD’s Unit for Regional Economics and Governance; former senior counselor for Regional Development Policy Division of the OECD; author of several OECD studies on the political economy of reform

José Torres, Colombia and United StatesFellow at Stanford Law School’s Legal Design Lab, which researches legal innovation; former director of Center for Legal Innovation at Sergio Arboleda University; former adviser at World Trade Organization in Geneva; former lawyer at Skadden Arps in London

Chris Ullman, United StatesDirector of global communications for Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms; former director of communications for US Office of Management and Budget and House of Representatives Commerce Committee; expert in strategy and crisis management

Carmen Urízar, Guatemala
Adviser on economics and infrastructure to the new government; former minister of energy and mines; former president of Guatemala Petroleum Commission; founder of private investment consultant groups

Ian Vásquez, United States and Peru
Director of Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at Cato Institute; area of expertise in Latin America, especially in economic development

Gustavo Villasmil, Venezuela
Secretary of health for the state of Miranda and principal builder of its new public health system; surgeon and specialist in internal medicine at the Central University of Venezuela; author of more than twenty peer-reviewed academic papers and two books on health care and policy

Wolf von Laer, United States and Germany
CEO of Students for Liberty; co-founder of European Students for Liberty; recent PhD in political economy from King’s College London with focus on entrepreneurship, public choice, and Austrian economics

Michael Walker, Canada
Founder of Fraser Institute, Canada’s highest-ranked think tank; appointed to Order of Canada, the government’s highest honor, for his work at Fraser; co-founder, with Milton and Rose Friedman, of Economic Freedom of the World project, a collaboration of eighty institutes worldwide

Wan Jan Wan Saiful, Malaysia
Founder of Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS); life member of Islamic Party of Malaysia; former head of Conservative Muslim Forum in the United Kingdom• Video interview

Matt Warner, United StatesChief operating officer at Atlas Network; former public affairs director at James Madison Institute; former director of energy and education at American Legislative Exchange Council; published in several journals and newspapers; testified before several state legislative bodies

Mark Weber, United StatesProject manager for Digital Currency Initiative at MIT Labs, which is developing a blockchain-based finance and land title system for Mexico’s Ministry of Finance; co-producer of Poverty, Inc., an award-winning documentary that explores how entrepreneurship can alleviate poverty

Richard Weekley, United States
Chairman of Texans for Lawsuit Reform; chairman of Weekley Development Group.• Video interview

Linda Whetstone, United Kingdom
Chairman of Network for a Free Society; former chairman of International Policy Network; board member of Institute of Economic Affairs and Atlas Network

Rachel Whetstone, United StatesGlobal head of communications and public policy at Google; former Political Secretary to then Conservative leader Michael Howard

Andreas Widmer, Switzerland and United StatesDirector of Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship; professor of entrepreneurship at Catholic University of America; co-founder of SEVEN Fund; former Vatican Swiss Guard and author of The Pope and the CEO: Pope John Paul II’s Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard

Silverio Zebral, Brazil and United StatesChief economist and head of Government Innovation Unit at the Organization of American States (OAS); adjunct professor at George Washington University; awarded the Pedro Ernesto Medal by the city of Rio de Janeiro, that government’s highest honor